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Frustrated hire car drivers from Region Six yesterday staged a protest against a change in the water taxi schedule.

LIBREVILLE, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Three people were killed and up to 1,100 were arrested in Gabon yesterday, the government said, in a second day of rioting over the announcement of President Ali Bongo’s re-election and his main rival’s accusation that the vote was rigged.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s ousted President Dilma Rousseff appealed to the Supreme Court yesterday to overturn the Senate’s decision to remove her from office for breaking budgetary rules.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Reuters) – An explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its cargo during preparations for a routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida yesterday, two days before it had been due to blast off and place a satellite in orbit.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s pledge to make Mexico pay for a border wall is “outrageous,” its government said yesterday, one day after the Republican presidential candidate visited Mexico City for talks with President Enrique Pena Nieto.

LA PAZ/SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Bolivia responded to last week’s murder of a government official by announcing a crackdown on mining cooperatives yesterday, saying it would return contracts signed between them and private companies to state control.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Melania Trump, the wife of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, sued the Maryland-based publisher of the Daily Mail Online and a blogger yesterday over stories about her past she believes were “tremendously damaging,” her attorney said in a statement.

The Board of Directors of the Guyana Water Incorporated, following a specially convened board meeting today, decided to terminate the services of Lear Goring as the entity’s Debt Recovery Manager.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Dressed in white and chanting “this government will fall,” hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters flooded Venezuela’s capital on Thursday to press for an end to President Nicolas Maduro’s rule.

A majority of city councillors yesterday showed support for an amended contract for the controversial parking meters project,  including a much shorter duration and lower fines, but divisions persisted as the Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan charged that the changes were circulated an hour before the meeting which had been called only for discussion purposes.

Who in the David Granger administration recommended Larry Singh of Linden Holding for the controversial pharmaceutical bond contract or entertained his interest in such an arrangement?

The Ministry of Public Health yesterday said a new shipment of Yellow Fever vaccines arrived on Tuesday as expected.

A Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) shopkeeper is in a critical condition in hospital after she was shot once last evening during an attempted robbery.

Darrel John, the man who was last Friday found guilty of illegal firearm and ammunition possession was yesterday sentenced to 48 months imprisonment.

Four Guyanese will participate in US President Barack Obama’s 2016  Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellows Program, a release from the US Embassy yesterday said.

The Board of the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) is expected to convene a special meeting today on the hiring of the Debt Collection Manager Lear Goring, who has been sent on administrative leave following reports of his narcotics convictions in the United States.

There is need for more careful planning by the Ministries of the Government to ensure that annual budgetary allocations can be spent in a timely manner, says President David Granger.

The People’s National Congress Reform has unveiled its 15-member Central Executive Commit-tee (CEC) with women comprising sixty percent and there are three new faces.

Persons interested in acquiring prepaid electricity meters will soon be able to so as an adequate number of the devices are expected to be available, GINA said.

Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry  (GCCI) President Vishnu Doerga says that given the last four years of slumping business, there is need for a shift from revenue dependence on local commodities to value adding.